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Spectrum is the trade name of Charter Communications . The name is widely used by both market consumers and commercial businesses. Services that Spectrum offers include cable television , internet access , internet security , managed services , mobile phone , and unified communications .

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30-515: WDSS may refer to: WDSS-LD , a low-power television station (channel 13, virtual 38) licensed to serve Syracuse, New York, United States WPRR (AM) , a radio station (1680 AM) licensed to serve Ada, Michigan, United States, which held the call sign WDSS from 2003 to 2008 Wallaceburg District Secondary School (WDSS), a high school in Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

60-504: A low-power translator station that previously broadcast on UHF channel 38 from a transmitter in Onondaga . The original construction permit was issued to "Ithaca 52 Inc." in December 1999, valid for three years, with the first program tests run in late 2002 to meet a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) deadline. The initial broadcast consisted of 26   kW of color bars from

90-448: A mobile virtual network operator service. Spectrum utilizes their service area's Wi-Fi network for extended network coverage, while Verizon Wireless provides the network Spectrum Mobile utilizes for mobile service, both a traditional 4G network and newer 5G network. On June 26, 2018, Charter Communications announced it had given L.A.'s Finest a series order for a first season consisting of 13 episodes. The series premiered as

120-515: A Web site dedicated to stop the movement. Other Web sites have been recently following the Time Warner Cable cap plans that were already following broadband Internet providers metering and capping plans. U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Eric Massa , both of whom represent portions of the Rochester, New York market that would be affected by the changes, announced their opposition to

150-535: A license to cover was granted to Word of God Fellowship for WNYI by the FCC. That firm was required to construct digital television facilities on an in-core frequency before WNYI could be returned to the air, which needed to occur before June 12, 2010, lest the license be automatically forfeited to the FCC. On the weekend of May 22–23, WNYI commenced digital broadcasts on channel 20, within weeks of its license deadline. Spectrum (cable service) The Spectrum brand name

180-670: A tower location near Ithaca College . The station was sold to Caroline Pawley in June 2003 and to Equity Broadcasting in 2004; as a Univision affiliate it had been fed remotely via satellite from Equity's central automated satellite hub in Little Rock, Arkansas since 2004. WNYI, licensed as a full service station despite its low signal power terrestrially, had applied for must-carry access to Time Warner Cable in Syracuse in May 2005. While Ithaca

210-408: A user goes over, they will be charged $ 1 per additional gigabyte . Time Warner Cable announced they would provide a meter for users to monitor their usage. The new plan was set to begin in the summer of 2009, however due to protests they had decided against the bandwidth caps. Currently, users have unlimited bandwidth usage given that it does not exceed the predetermined data service maximum as given in

240-498: A vote to decertify IBEW Local 3. Spectrum's efforts to decertify the union has faced legal challenge, including a March 2020 decision by the National Labor Relations Board , which found "a serious and substantial issue" regarding Spectrum's efforts to decertify the union. In 2018, Charter agreed to a $ 174 million fine with New York state , in lieu of the state completely revoking its franchise to operate throughout

270-663: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WDSS-LD WNYI (channel 52) is a religious television station licensed to Ithaca, New York , United States, serving the Elmira , Binghamton and Syracuse television markets as an owned-and-operated station of the Daystar Television Network . The station's transmitter is located on Quarry Road in Moravia, New York . It shares its channel and tower with co-owned WDSS-LD ,

300-486: Is nominally in the Syracuse market area, the terrestrial WNYI signal had always been inadequate to reach Syracuse or other communities outside of Ithaca itself. The station had made various applications for an increase in licensed power but no decisions had been made by the FCC on these requests. WNYI was the only full-service television station in upstate New York to provide Spanish language programming. At auction on April 16, 2009, Daystar bought WNYI, pending approval by

330-472: The federal bankruptcy code, case #4:08-BK-17646-M, U.S. district court for the district of Arkansas, notifying the FCC that "This station must obtain post-petition financing and court approval before digital facilities may be constructed. The station must cease analog broadcasting on (the end of DTV transition in) 2009 , regardless of whether digital facilities are operational by that date. The station will file authority to remain silent if so required by

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360-527: The "master agreement". Time Warner Cable would have offered unlimited data for $ 150/month had the plan continued. Glenn Britt (1949–2014), CEO from 2001 until December 2013, justified the new billing plans by claiming that the infrastructures had to be continuously upgraded and users would pay for how much they use. In February 2015, a Huffington Post article alleges a 97% profit margin on Time Warner Cable's Internet service. Facebook groups have been created in protest in addition to an online petition and

390-490: The FCC." While the DTV Delay Act extended this deadline to June 12, 2009, Equity had applied for an extension of the digital construction permit in order to retain the broadcast license after the station went dark. WNYI could not continue analogue operations as it was a full service station on a frequency which is to be reallocated for non-broadcast use at the end of the digital television transition. On June 12, 2009,

420-645: The Road Runner brand name. Road Runner High Speed Online employed the Road Runner character from the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons (part of the Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies franchises) distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures as its mascot and brand name. However, in 2012, it was rebranded as simply Time Warner Cable Internet, dropping the Road Runner branding that Time Warner Cable had to license from

450-495: The Spectrum footprint has Spectrum Internet Gig available and starting base speeds depend by area which at one point will all be upgraded to 200/10 Mbit/s in the near future. In late 2009 after splitting off from Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery ), Time Warner Cable began reselling Clearwire mobile WiMAX service as Road Runner Mobile, bundled with the company's existing broadband, TV and VoIP services. In October 2009,

480-463: The TWC acquisition by Charter in June 2016, TWC Maxx upgrades have indefinitely been put on hold. After its merger with TWC and Bright House Networks, Charter Spectrum started offering broadband Internet plans across its entire service area. In December 2017, Charter began its rollout of DOCSIS 3.1, initially in early TWC Maxx markets, which increased speeds and added a gigabit tier. As of April 2020, most of

510-495: The U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Daystar changed programming to its namesake network. Univision's national feed was quickly returned to Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum ), causing little to no impact for viewers, and due to various technical issues which often plagued Equity's stations, steadied the area's access to the network. WNYI shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 52, and " flash-cut " its digital signal into operation to UHF channel 20, using virtual channel 52. Because it

540-407: The cable service's first original series on May 13, 2019, marking Charter's first foray into original programming. In August, Curfew and E Is for Edie received pickups. On March 6, 2019, the service picked up a 12-episode eighth season of the 1992–1999 NBC sitcom Mad About You , which premiered six of the episodes on November 20, 2019. On June 11, 2019, a series titled Paradise Lost

570-429: The cities to have metered billing were announced, which included: Beaumont, Texas ; Rochester, New York ; Austin, Texas ; San Antonio, Texas ; and Greensboro, North Carolina . These metered based billing plans were canceled according to Time Warner Cable "due to customer misunderstanding". Caps would range from 5 GB to 100 GB with no unlimited option. The bandwidth will include downloads and uploads. If

600-461: The company indicated that they'd be launching their incarnation of the service starting December 1 in Raleigh , Durham , Cary , Chapel Hill , Charlotte and Greensboro , and later, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Honolulu, and Maui. As of late 2011, Time Warner Cable stopped signing up new Road Runner Mobile customers under resold Clearwire WiMAX service. Existing WiMAX customers could continue to use

630-534: The company's efforts to take control of workers health insurance and pension plans. The strike, which ended on April 18, 2022, is currently the longest strike in United States history . Spectrum has refused to negotiate with the workers' union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3, instead, hiring a large temporary workforce of strikebreakers , and attempted to launch

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660-573: The existing speed tiers, with the highest speed tier tripling from 100 Mbit/s to 300 Mbit/s. As of mid 2016, TWC Maxx upgrades have been completed in New York City up the Hudson Valley, Los Angeles, Austin, Kansas City, Dallas, San Antonio, Raleigh, Hawaii, and Charlotte. Rollouts of TWC Maxx were in progress in San Diego, Greensboro, and Wilmington and were completed in early 2016. After

690-475: The now unaffiliated Warner Bros. With Charter's acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016, the service was rebranded as "Spectrum Internet" on September 20, 2016. Despite raising prices of its Internet service within the previous year, Time Warner Cable announced in February 2009 that it would expand its bandwidth caps and coverage fees into four additional markets by the end of the year. On April 1, 2009,

720-451: The plan and even went as far as to threaten legislation to ban such a scheme. On April 16, 2009, Time Warner Cable abandoned the plan. As a condition of the merger with TWC, Spectrum agreed to not impose any bandwidth usage caps for seven years post-merger. On January 30, 2014, Time Warner Cable announced its new TWC Maxx initiative in New York City and Los Angeles which substantially boosted service speeds at no additional cost compared to

750-458: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about radio and/or television stations with the same/similar call signs or branding. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WDSS&oldid=1253585566 " Category : Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

780-421: The service, but TWC began signing up new Road Runner Mobile customers under resold Verizon Wireless 4G LTE services. As of late 2012, however, all mentions of Time Warner Cable-branded mobile broadband services have been removed from Time Warner Cable's website and most regional franchises, and eventually, those customers were transitioned directly to Verizon . On June 30, 2018, Charter launched Spectrum Mobile ,

810-548: Was announced as having received a pickup. On February 19, 2020, it was announced that the series would premiere on April 13, 2020. On June 26, 2019, the DirecTV Latin America original series Todo por el juego ( Everything for the Game ) was announced as premiering on Spectrum Originals on July 15, 2019. The original series would be offered, along with an English-dubbed version entitled Side Games . On January 18, 2020, it

840-496: Was announced that Manhunt: Unabomber would return as Manhunt: Deadly Games and premiere on February 3. On February 13, 2020, it was announced that the Sky One series Temple would premiere on March 9, 2020. On August 11, 2022, Charter Communications announced that it would phase out Spectrum Originals due to rising production costs. On May 23, 2017, about 1,800 Spectrum workers went on strike in New York City, following

870-610: Was first introduced in 2014. Prior to that, these services were marketed primarily under the Charter brand. Following the acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks by Charter in 2016, these operations also merged into the Spectrum brand. Time Warner Cable first launched what would become Road Runner with a 1995 market test in Elmira, New York , under the banner Southern Tier On-Line Community . Later it became known as LineRunner (a moniker subsequently employed by its VoIP service ), before Time Warner Cable adopted

900-482: Was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Both the ability of WNYI to transition to digital and its ability to continue broadcasting were directly jeopardized as on December 8, 2008, the licensee's parent corporation filed a petition for bankruptcy relief under Chapter 11 of

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